Numismatic Coin Series

Frank Gasparro designed the Eisenhower dollar, released in 1971 as the first dollar-sized coin in the US since the Peace dollar ended in 1935.

The Susan B.

The Sacagawea dollar arrived in 2000 to replace the Susan B.

The Presidential dollar series issued four coins per year honoring US presidents in order of service, running from George Washington in 2007 through Ronald Reagan in 2016, with George H.

The American Innovation dollar program launched in 2018 to highlight one innovation from each state, DC, and the five US territories - 56 designs total when complete in 2032.

America the Beautiful quarters replaced the State Quarter program in 2010 with 56 designs honoring national parks and historic sites, five per year through 2021.

The 50 State Quarters program ran from 1999 to 2008, issuing five new designs per year in the order states ratified the Constitution - Delaware first, Hawaii last.

Felix Schlag won a public competition in 1938 to design the Jefferson nickel, which replaced the Buffalo nickel.

James Earle Fraser's Buffalo nickel ran from 1913 to 1938: a composite Indian portrait on one side, a bison named Black Diamond from the Central Park Zoo on the other.

Charles Barber designed the Liberty Head nickel, and it had a famously rocky start: the 1883 issue omitted "CENTS" on the reverse, and con artists quickly gold-plated them to pass as five-dollar gold pieces.

The Shield nickel was the first five-cent piece struck in copper-nickel alloy, introduced in 1866 after silver disappeared from circulation during the Civil War.

Victor David Brenner designed the Lincoln cent for the centennial of Lincoln's birth in 1909 - the first US circulating coin to feature a real person rather than an allegorical figure.

James B.

The Flying Eagle cent was the US Mint's answer to a problem: the old large copper cent was too big and too expensive to produce, but switching to a small coin required an act of Congress.